Only fellow Birminghamsters will care, but Silvertron will re-open sometime in September. Somehow I missed it when they announced this weeks ago. The Birmingham Weekly reports that it’s been bought by John Otey Hutchinson. He’s the same guy who owns Otey’s in Crestline Village. They say the menu won’t change much, which is good, since B gets the shakes without her fix of ‘hot bacon salad dressing’.

Also, the uber-expanding WineStyles chain now has a WineStyles store at Lee Branch in Hoover. The shop sells wine and some cd’s. Their hook is that they organize wine by some taste scale they made (silky, crisp, mellow, etc.) instead of by varietal or geography. On some scale, I think The Grape tries to do this too, it’s never appealed to me. The WineStyles site says they have ‘demystified’ the wine shopping experience.

Whatever.

Like anything else in life, I think if folks would just read up a little on a subject, they’re bound to enjoy it a heck-of-a-lot more than by subscribing to some marketing gimmick.
But hey their prices are low and they have agreements with some vintners that have never shipped to Alabama before, so I say ‘welcome to the neighborhood’!